Google Berkeley County Data Center (Moncks Corner)

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

1. 2007

   Operating
   Operational since 2007 per Google's own Berkeley County location page; one of Google's earliest U.S. data centers. Source: Google

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Berkeley County Data Center (Moncks Corner) in Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

If you live near this site and something is happening that this page does not show, that is worth telling us. Send us the document and it goes in the record with the source attached. For sites where opposition is already established, see every contested site we track.

Power and water

Google structured a PPA via Sol Systems for 225 MW of new solar (developed by Pine Gate Renewables) plus 18 MW of battery storage across North and South Carolina, explicitly framed as supporting Google's operations in the region and its 24/7 carbon-free energy goal.

Notes on the record

Google's flagship South Carolina data center in the Mount Holly / Moncks Corner area of Berkeley County, one of Google's first U.S. data centers, operational since 2007, expanded since. Google states $13B+ invested in South Carolina since 2007 (a statewide figure spanning Berkeley + the tracked Dorchester County sites, not site-specific). DISTINCT from the tracked Google Ridgeville (Project Dawson) and St. George (Winding Woods) campuses, which are in Dorchester County. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of a disclosed campus address; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact. Re-checked 2026-09-10 via Google's own current data-center site: the Berkeley County/Moncks Corner facility is still described as one of Google's active South Carolina facilities, consistent with recorded status 'operational'. No new capacityMw, water/cooling, street address, landAcres, jobs, subsidies, or community data was found for this specific site despite targeted checks of Santee Cooper's newsroom, generation-projects, board-meetings, IRP, and economic-development pages; Berkeley County's own government site (403 Forbidden on every fetch); SC Governor's newsroom; SC Commerce newsroom; scbiz.com; and Google's own site (no per-site address/capacity breakdown -- Google groups all three SC facilities under one page). Santee Cooper's board-meetings page appears to render minutes/agendas via a JS document-management widget not retrievable through a static fetch, so its content could not be checked this run.

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

• DC BLOX Camp Hall Data Center Campus · DC BLOX10 mi · Proposed · 45 MW
• Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson) · Ridgeville · Google17 mi · Under construction · Supported

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